Author's Note

Spoilers for contestants ((ages included))
Minors: Petunia, Splash: Don't be creepy.

Trixie (she/her) - 23
Applejack (she/her) - 24
Twilight (she/her) - 24
Petunia (she/her) - 12
Dusty (she/her) - 19
Splash (he/him) - 16
Derpy (she/her) - 28
Mr. Rich (he/him) - 42
Discord (he/him) - 2000+
Spike (he/him) - 24
Octavia (she/her) - 22
Vinyl (she/they) - 23
Gilda (she/her) - 24
Corriander (he/him) - 39
Zecora (she/her) - 32
Cross ((Red Heart FtM HC)) (he/him) - 26
Sidirourgous SID roaR jUS - 27
Sunny (he/him) - 30
Quibble (he/they) - 25
Snap (he/him) - 41
Thorax (they/them) - 27

Welcome to Hopes Peak: Academy of Harmony Prologue Part 1

Trixie Lulamoon was walking over a grand bridge. A bit too fancy for her tastes, she wishes she could have just brought her wagon. That was besides the point.

“Starlight could’ve told me this would be such a long trek... I wouldve prepared more..”
Trixie panted as she wanted to collapse, but she was so close!

“Trixie does not faint... For she... Is the Ultimate Illusionist!”
It was then that Trixie collapsed.

When Trixie got some awareness, she was in what looked to be an empty classroom, she found herself slumped over her desk, but still felt mostly asleep. She needed to be around 20 percent more awake. When all of the sudden she felt a sharp jab to her shins.

“Hey you. Wake up.”

“Five more minutes Starlight...”

“Ah’ don’t know who Starbright is, but what ah’ do know is you need to wake up!”
Trixie felt an even more powerful jab at her shins.

“Alright, I’m up - I’m up - who are you?”

“The names Applejack, and im the Ultimate Orchardist, pleasure’s all mine, whatever yer name is!”

“Trixie is the Ultimate Illusionist and doesn’t appreciate a kick to the shins!”

“Ok, that’s Trixie, but I asked for yer own name, Sugarcube.”

Trixie let out a groan and rubbed her side as she finally got a look at the mare. A built tall orange earth pony with a stetson hat and blonde, almost hay like, hair. Tied up in a long bun with a red mane tie.

“My name is Trixie Lulamoon, I am Trixie, The Ultimate Illusionist, pleasures all mine except for my shins.”

“My apologies, Trixie, but you were cold out and I was sent to find others so we can try and make a lick of whats going on.”

“Aren’t we at Hopes Peak: Harmony Academy?”

“Thats just it, we dont seem to be at a campus, more of a resort kind of place, the only classroom I’ve seen is this one...”

“Trixie does not find that to be a good omen..”

“Well, I should bring you to the receptionist area, its where she wants us to meet.”

“She?”

“You’ll see, Come on now, Trixie, I’ll take you there.”

Applejack led Trixie out of the classroom and into a hallway, they headed down it where she saw two unicorns, a pegasus, an earth pony, but the most eye catching was a lavendar colored alicorn, long ultramarine mane with purple and pink stripes, the tail matched it exactly. She noticed Applejack and invited her over.

“I see you found someone Applejack.”

“Trixie’s name is Trixie Lulamoon and I’m the Ultimate Illusionist!”

Twilight muttered under her breath, but everyone heard.

“Another pony who can’t even speak proper...”
Applejack and Trixie gave her the side eye but none the less let her finish her “introduction.”

“The name is Twilight Sparkle, and apparently, I’m the Ultimate Princess.”
Trixie rolled her eyes, could anypony be so full of herself?

“I’m going to look for others, you stay here and introduce yourselves to the others I found.”

Applejack and Trixie looked around and saw one of the ponies in more detail. The earth pony was a pale blue, a dark blue mane, and appeared to be just a filly. She noticed the two and ran up to them.

“Hiiiiiii~ The name’s Petunia Paleo, and I’m the Ultimate Paleontologist!”

“Thats one of those fancy schmancy ponies who study remains of olden creatures, right?”

“Welll, I would’nt call myself fancy... Or even schamncy, you have that right, Applejack.”

“Nice to meet you Petunia, it seems you know us already so Trixie is going to go introduce herself and Applejack to the others.”
“Okey, dokey, bye then~!”

Applejack and Trixie approached the two talking unicorns. One had a light blue mane with wine red tips and a green mane band along with a pale purple coat, the other had deep purple eyes, way done up deep blue hair and a similar wine red coat. On closer approaching, the pale one seemed slightly more annoyed and had a horn that had different shades, pale purple, blue, green, and red. It was a unique horn indeed. The other unicorn had makeup, strawberry colored spots and makeup on.

The redder one noticed the two first and nodded at Multi Colored horn to introduce themselves first. They sighed and responded in a deeper voice, that sounded like they didnt want to be here.

“The name is Dusty Mosaic, and I’m the Ultimate Mosaicist, I make mosaics and I don’t think I should be here because I know what I do and I do it well, but my marefriend said this was an oppurtunity so....”
The other unicorn interrupted

“First off - no I’m not her marefriend, secondly, the name is Splash Refresh, and I’m the Ultimate Smoothie Maker!”

“Ah think Ive heard of you, at least by passing. I have vague memories of sending my orchard’s apples to a famous smoothie maker, but I thought they were from Cloudsdale.”

“Oh, I am, my father is a unicorn, my mother is a pegasus and at a Cloudsdale event my father had that spell and it somehow got transfered to me.”
Dusty retorted, clearly just wanting to get away from this conversation.

“Was the event eachother?”

“First of all, that’s gross, but secondly, it was just a sports event my mom was in.”

“Well, this was something, but Im going to go explore.”

Splash eagerly chased down Dusty.
“Wait~ I’ll come too~!”

Dusty just sighed.

They lastly turned to the pegasus. A grey pegasus with a pale yellow, she seemed to be distracted by... Something and nothing. The silence got awkward so Trixie struck up the conversation

“Hello - Tri- er my name is Trixie Lulamoon and I’m the Ultimate Illusionist, this is Applejack the Ultimate Orchardist.”

“Howdy~”

She turned and stared blankly, one of her eyes sort of went the other way.

“Hi... My name is Derpy Hooves... And I’m the Ultimate Mailmare.”

“So you deliver the mail to all of Cloudsdale?”
Trixie questioned the now calmer mare.

“Along with Ponyville, and... That's it.”
The pony gave a cheerful smile before walking off.

“Well, what's next?”

“We could check the indoor garden?”

“Trixie doesn’t know what that is, but Trixie usually doesn’t.”